Epidemics, Pandemics and Outbreaks

Epidemics, Pandemics and Outbreaks

University of Pittsburgh

À propos de ce cours : What can we do to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases from becoming epidemics or pandemic? In this course, you’ll learn the facts about infectious diseases and medical responses. We'll focus on the public health laws and policies that provide the framework for effective prevention, like quarantine laws, drug development policies, and bioterrorism and biodefense.

Welcome to Week One! This week’s lesson immerses you in the world of epidemics, pandemics and outbreaks and our efforts to prevent and respond to them. It will prepare you to engage in depth with the lessons that are coming up in weeks 2-4: "Understanding Infectious Diseases," "Global Health Security," and "Local Countermeasures."

Vidéo: If an Outbreak Occurs What are the Roles of the State and Federal Governments in Stopping it?

Vidéo: Why Did Some States Impose Quarantines in the 2014 Ebola Outbreak While Other States Didn't?

Vidéo: What Role Does Advocacy Play in Funding?

Vidéo: What Role Does the Biological Weapons Convention Play?

Vidéo: What is an Emergency Use Authorization for a Drug or Vaccine?

Vidéo: What is the Role of Public Education in Containing an Outbreak?

Vidéo: What Effect do Outbreaks Have on Funding Priorities?

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Week 2: Understanding Infectious Diseases

Welcome to Week Two! This week’s lesson provides you with the tools needed to understand the world of infectious disease. It will allow you to develop a context of knowledge and familiarity with the concepts that inform legal and public health response strategies to outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. What you learn here will be drawn upon in weeks 3-4: “Global Health Security” and “Local Countermeasures.”

Vidéo: What Effect is Globalization Having on the Problem of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria?

Vidéo: What Kinds of Biosafety Gear do Reasearchers Use When They're Working with Dangerous Viruses and Bacteria in the Lab?

Vidéo: How Does the Federal Government Promote Research and Development of New Drugs and Vaccines?

Vidéo: What is the Animal Rule?

Vidéo: How Were Researchers Able to Produce an Experimental Vaccine Within a Few Months of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak?

Vidéo: Could We Produce Enough Vaccine for a Pandemic Flu?

Vidéo: Why Should Healthy People Get Vaccinated for The Flu or Other Diseases?

Vidéo: Why are We Seeing Resurgence of Old Diseases for Which We Have Vaccines Like Measles?

Vidéo: What Are Some of the Obstacles to Increasing Our Vaccination Rates?

Vidéo: Are Vaccinations Important in a Pandemic?

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Week 3: Global Health Security

Welcome to Week 3! Now that you are more familiar with the nature and history of infectious disease, consider the following quote from Natalie Angier, American nonfiction writer and a science journalist for The New York Times: “Today, diseases as common as the cold and as rare as Ebola are circling the globe with near telephonic speed, making long-distance connections and intercontinental infections almost as if by satellite. You needn't even bother to reach out and touch someone. If you live, if you're homeothermic biomass, you will be reached and touched. Microbes are, after all, members of the most ancient, zealous and Darwinically gilded 24-7 delivery consortium. They travel by land, sea, air, nose, blows, glove, love, sewage, steerage, rat backs, hat racks, uncooked burritos, overlooked mosquitoes. And, oh, how they love the global village.” Indeed, the same forces of globalization that have lowered barriers to global communication, travel, and commerce have amplified the ability for infectious diseases to spread internationally. In many ways, defense against this common threat is only as strong as each nation’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats, and the collective ability of the international community to coordinate these capacities multilaterally.

Vidéo: What is the Dual Use Research of Concern in the Biological Weapons Context?

Vidéo: What are Some of the Ways the United States Protects Itself Against Bioterrorism?

Vidéo: Do These Biodefense Programs Protect us Against Pandemics in Addition to Bioterrorism?

Vidéo: How do We Decide Which Bioterrorism Threats to Prepare For?

Vidéo: How Does Biowatch Detect Bioterrorism Attacks?

Vidéo: How is Biodefense Funded?

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Week 4: Local Countermeasures

Welcome to Week Four! This week’s lesson introduces you to the legal interventions available to state and local public health practitioners to combat epidemics, pandemics and outbreaks. In addition to the law, we will look at some of the ethical and practical issues associated with disease reporting requirements, the effect of a declaration of an emergency, travel restrictions, quarantine and isolation.